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Q&A with Multimedia Artist and SVA Alumnus Zackary Drucker
From Zackary Drucker‘s (BFA 2005 Photography) website: “The disciple of a silenced, ghettoized community, Zackary Drucker, a young transgender artist/performer from Los Angeles, uses a range of...
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Nora Krug Earns Pollock- Krasner Grant, Elizabeth Showman Wins Buck Scholarship
A current SVA student and an alumnus have earned well-deserved funding for two new projects. Nora Krug (MFA 2004 Illustration as Visual Essay) received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation to...
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SVA at the 4th Annual Degenerate Craft Fair
If you are looking for additions to deck the halls, the 2012 edition of the Degenerate Craft Fair will help get you in the holiday spirit. Taking place on Saturday, December 15 from noon to 9pm and...
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SVA Expands Relationships in Tokyo and Seoul
Director of Career Development Angie Wojak was part of an SVA delegation that recently traveled to Asia to conduct industry and alumni outreach. She recapped the group’s productive itinerary for SVA...
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New Exhibitions by Rob Walker, Judith Monteferrante and Riad Miah
MFA Products of Design Department faculty member Rob Walker has curated a new exhibition at Apexart called “As Real As It Gets,” which centers around his idea that the things we buy end up owning us as...
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What’s In Store: Santa Clops, Peanuts and Polar Bears
A Visit From Santa Clops or The Fright Before Christmas, by Gig Wailgum (MFA 1991 Illustration as Visual Essay): In this latest adaption of Wailgum’s monstrous take on the holiday classic The Night...
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New Issue of INK, SVA’s Student-Run Digital Comics Publication
The new issue of INK, published by SVA and the BFA Illustration and Cartooning Department, is now available as a free app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch at iTunes. Founded in 2011 by then-students...
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Wishing You A Wonderful Break & A Happy New Year!
SVA’s administrative offices are closing down for the winter break! The College, and all offices, will be closed December 20, 2012 – January 1, 2013. From all of us at SVA Close Up, we wish you a...
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SVA Portfolios: Five Most Viewed Projects of December 2012
Happy New Year! The final SVA Portfolios roundup of 2012 features a near-sweep by alumnus Yulia Gorbachenko (including a new project in the top spot), as well as a familiar (and adorable) project that...
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239 Days: An Exhibition of Works by SVA’s 2012 MFA Fine Arts Graduates
Graduates of the 2012 class of SVA’s MFA Fine Arts Department unite for a group exhibition entitled “239 Days” at Allegra LaViola Gallery, 179 East Broadway, New York City, on view from January 4 – 12...
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SVA’s Liz Magic Laser, Nancy Princenthal and Joseph Kosuth in ‘Art in America’
The December 2012 issue of Art in America launched the magazine’s 100th anniversary celebration (which continues throughout 2013) and for the kickoff, SVA faculty members and an alumnus were invited to...
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SVA’s ‘Art in the First Person’ Spring 2013 Lecture Series
Running from January 15 through April 23, SVA’s Spring 2013 “Art in the First Person” lecture series brings together notable artists, critics, curators and historians for over a dozen in-depth...
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‘Listening to Print’: Works from Olga Mezhibovskaya’s Typography Course
A variety of visual interpretations of music and performance, and new performances inspired by those interpretations, can be seen and heard at “Listening to Print,” a 10-year retrospective of student...
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Artists Lend a Hand: Post-Sandy Panel Discussion at SVA
On Thursday, January 31 from 7 – 9pm at 209 East 23 Street, 3rd floor, join the SVA community for a panel discussion on relief efforts and artists’ responses to Superstorm Sandy. The monumental...
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SVA’s Ilona Szwarc and Pacifico Silano Win International Photo Competition
Of the five awards handed out for the second annual Hey, Hot Shot! International Photography Competition, two of them went to members of the SVA community. Alumnus Pacifico Silano (MFA 2012...
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SVA Alumni Design Bloomberg’s New Interactive Billionaires Index
On January 23, Bloomberg.com released its new, interactive Billionaires Index, the latest research tool created by its seven-member visual data team. Headed by Lisa Strausfeld, a lauded designer and...
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New Exhibitions by SVA Alumni Amy Stein, Robert Lazzarini and Steven Bindernagel
Amy Stein (MFA 2006 Photography, Video and Related Media) and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar’s new exhibit “Tall Poppy Syndrome” resulted from a month-long study and road trip throughout New South Wales,...
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Save the Children: SVA Alumnus Creates ‘Every Beat Matters’ Campaign
SVA alumnus and BBDO New York art director James Kuczynski (BFA 2011 Advertising) recently led the agency’s creative team in developing Save The Children’s Every Beat Matters campaign, which aims to...
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SVA Portfolios: Five Most Discussed Projects of January 2013
In 2012, SVA Close Up featured monthly roundups of the most viewed projects on SVA Portfolios, and we saw so much amazing work. This year we will continue to showcase great projects, but we’d like to...
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Exhibitions by James Jean, Gary Panter and Sol LeWitt on View in NYC
Renowned illustrator, comic book artist and fashion designer James Jean (BFA 2001 Illustration) presents “Parallel Lines,” a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings that fuse together universal...
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